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Anatomy of an Epidemic

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What’s it about?

Award-winning journalist Robert Whitaker reveals how psychiatric medications, meant to heal, may have created a hidden epidemic of chronic mental disability.

You’ll learn

  • Psychiatric drugs worsen long-term outcomes
  • Chemical imbalance theory lacks evidence
  • Alternative therapies outperform medication
  • Pharmaceutical industry drives overdiagnosis